1001 Excuses

One day

My client asked me

To write an e-book on excuses

For submitting work so late

After being fed up hearing excuses

So unique every day

He was wondering, how I get so many excuses!

You can imagine, how lazy I am

This is the same old story

That every client I worked with have to tell

Clients give me a day or some hours

To finish an article and then to send it

Even if I have weeks to do

I starts working

I wake up so late as ever

First I count, how many hours left for the deadline

I could find enough time to sit idle

Even then, I will have some hours to finish the work

With few hours left for the deadline

I start working, setting period for each article

Then start rushing to finish it off

There come some un-expected issues

I find myself getting after it

With no choice but to attend it

Deadline gets so closer

Then it becomes a race against the time

Not always, there is a happy-ending

Once the deadline is over

I start getting mails and calls from clients

I have no choice but to answer them

They ask why I haven’t send work on time.

From silly illness to serious issues

From travel to events

Power cuts to internet troubles

Every day I kept giving excuses

I hope to meet deadlines someday

Without any excuses

To give relief to the clients

This poem is for those who always looked forward to my excuses.